Editing Sam Graves (section)

==Political positions==
===Financial bailouts===
After the September 2008 economic crisis, Graves voted against the [[proposed bailout of United States financial system]], claiming it "neither 'punished the wrongdoers nor adequately protected the innocent taxpayers, investors and retirees' caught in the Wall Street banking crisis."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.stjoenews.net/news/2008/sep/30/graves-boyda-vote-against-700b-bailout-us-house/ | title=Graves, Boyda vote against $700B bailout in the U.S. House | publisher=[[The News-Press]] | date=September 30, 2008 | access-date=May 17, 2007 | url-status=usurped | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930193359/http://www.stjoenews.net/news/2008/sep/30/graves-boyda-vote-against-700b-bailout-us-house/ | archive-date=September 30, 2008 }}</ref> In January 2014, Graves introduced the TRICARE Family Improvement Act. The bill would allow dependents of military members to stay on their parents' TRICARE health plan after turning age 26. The bill would change current law, which requires those dependents to change to a separate health plan after turning 26.<ref>[http://riponadvance.com/news/graves-proposes-changes-military-family-health-coverage/6420 "Graves proposes changes to military family health coverage"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301225911/http://riponadvance.com/news/graves-proposes-changes-military-family-health-coverage/6420 |date=March 1, 2014 }}. ''Ripon Advance''. 1/31/14. Retrieved 2/7/14.</ref> The [[American Conservative Union]] gave him an 85% evaluation in 2017. As of 2019, Graves has a 4% lifetime score from the [[League of Conservation Voters]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/sam-graves|title = Check out Representative Sam Graves's Environmental Voting Record|date = February 17, 2021}}</ref>

===Boeing 737 MAX crashes===
Graves blamed on May 13, 2019, at the [[United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure|House Aviation]] subcommittee hearing, the 737 MAX crashes ([[Lion Air Flight 610]]) on October 29, 2018, and [[Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302]]) on poor training of the Indonesian and Ethiopian pilots. He stated also that "pilots trained in the U.S. would have been successful" in handling the emergencies on both jets.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-05-15 |title=How much was pilot error a factor in the Boeing 737 MAX crashes? |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/how-much-was-pilot-error-a-factor-in-the-boeing-737-max-crashes/ |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=The Seattle Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-05-22 |title=Blaming Dead Pilots Brought to You by Boeing |url=https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/blaming-dead-pilots-brought-to-you-by-boeing/ |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=Corporate Crime Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref> One month earlier the [[FAA]] had issued the [[Boeing 737 MAX groundings]].

===Israel===
Graves voted to support Israel following the [[2023 Hamas attack on Israel]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Demirjian |first=Karoun |date=2023-10-25 |title=House Declares Solidarity With Israel in First Legislation Under New Speaker |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/house-israel-vote.html |access-date=2023-10-30 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Washington |first=U. S. Capitol Room H154 |last2=p:225-7000 |first2=DC 20515-6601 |date=2023-10-25 |title=Roll Call 528 Roll Call 528, Bill Number: H. Res. 771, 118th Congress, 1st Session |url=https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023528 |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives |language=en}}</ref>